Virginia Tech mentoring program helps girls through a rough spot: middle school
The middle school years aren’t exactly known as a peak life experience, what with their body image awkwardness, mental health issues, and social angst.
The middle school years aren’t exactly known as a peak life experience, what with their body image awkwardness, mental health issues, and social angst.

Augusta Health has seen an uptick in COVID-19 hospitalizations in the past two weeks, and officials there are encouraging the community to get a second booster if necessary.
Mary Baldwin University President Pamela R. Fox will retire as the university’s ninth president on June 30, 2023, after two decades at the Staunton-based liberal-arts school.
Virginia coach Tony Bennett played a hunch late in the Cavaliers’ 94-87 win over KK Mega Basket on Friday, going with a lineup of young guys down the stretch.

The last Tony Bennett technical foul that I remember was in his first season at Virginia, in a home loss to Maryland. I hope there’s video somewhere of his second UVA tech, at the end of the first OT in a 94-87 double-OT win over KK Mega Basket to conclude the program’s 10-day tour of Italy on Friday.
Two communities in Virginia were selected to receive planning assistance as part of a Recreation Economy for Rural Communities program: Buchanan and Buena Vista.

A nationwide sex trafficking interdiction operation located 141 adult victims and 84 minor victims of sex trafficking and 37 missing children, the FBI announced today.

The U.S. House, in a 220-207 party-line vote, passed the Inflation Reduction Act, signature legislation pushed by President Biden that will lower healthcare costs, combat climate change and tackle the root causes of record-breaking inflation.

The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority has been awarded a grant by the U.S. Department of Transportation in support of its Long Bridge bicycle and pedestrian crossing project.
It’s becoming clear the Department of Justice believes former president Donald Trump had top secret national security documents in a safe in his Florida golf club.
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